Atalanta is rallying around its manager Maurizio Sarri following the death of his father, Amerigo, who passed away yesterday evening at the age of 97. In a statement on the club's official website, the club expressed its "deepest condolences." "President Antonio Percassi, co-chairman Stephen Pagliuca, CEO Luca Percassi, the directors, the coaching staff, the players, all the club's employees and collaborators join together in affection with Mr. Sarri and his family at this moment of great sorrow, offering their most sincere and heartfelt condolences. May the closeness and embrace of the entire nerazzurra family reach the Sarri family," the statement reads.
Amerigo Sarri, a former professional cyclist, had worked as an Italsider employee in Naples, where his son Maurizio was born, and from 1962 to 1965 in Castro, in the Bergamo area, at what is now Lucchini Rs.
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